Rare

I have just rec'ed a bottle of bourbon called "WHITE BISON BOURBON".
This bottle is ceramic and dipped in bround wax. The bottle has a raised
bison on the front and a handle and is all white. The bottle comes in a
rather nice wood box which is engrave with a bison and the name of the
bourbon. This is then in a cardboard box also with the same bison and name.
A sticker on the bottle states the bourbon was distilled in kentucky and
hand bottled by white bison disilling co. in Weston MO.
I was told this very rare and worth several hundred $$$.
I have a large collection of hard to find spirits but this is new to me.
Can anyone tell me what I have?

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If it is worth money, it is because of the decanter, not the bourbon, except in the sense that decanter collectors prefer them to be unopened. "Weston, MO" is McCormick, a small and undistinguished distiller, mostly interesting for the novelty of their being a non-Kentucky bourbon maker.

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In case any of you are such collectors of the decantors, I stumbled upon this "rare" item myself today in a little liquor store in St Louis County. The owner said it has been on the shelf since she bought the place five years ago. With a sticker priced at $147.99 I don't doubt it. It was just as described, white decanter with brown wax seal in a wooden display case. If anyone is interested, I would be happy to pick it up and am planning on being at the April tasting in Bardstown, tentatively. Let me know.

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I could buy it for a third of what I paid for it...if I was willing to buy 20 or so cases.

That is the jest a lot of times , isn't it?
We buy the one bottle we can afford and pay a premium, or take or chances on cornering the market.
I'm not sure I'd sleep all that well with 20 cases of it stashed away.

Then I suppose if you felt you could move it at a decent profit, What are you waiting for?

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Cliff, I'm not blaming you. You had already told me that you weren't interested at that price. I bought it because of a temporary brain fart. It was my choice. It had been there for five years, it would probably have been there five more if I hadn't given in to those voices in my head. I place no blame on you, and actually I'm finding my lack of willpower to be amusing in this case. I just like to whine a bit and then move on. There, I feel much better.